{"id":297710,"date":"2025-12-04T00:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/297710\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T00:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:54:09","slug":"doctor-who-sold-ketamine-to-friends-star-matthew-perry-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/297710\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor who sold ketamine to Friends star Matthew Perry jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A doctor who pleaded guilty to selling ketamine to Matthew Perry in the weeks before the Friends star\u2019s overdose death has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett handed down the sentence plus two years of probation to 44-year-old Dr Salvador Plasencia in a federal courtroom in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Plasencia was the first to be sentenced out of five defendants who have pleaded guilty in connection with Perry\u2019s death at the age of 54 in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Plasencia admitted illegally selling large amounts of ketamine to Perry, though he did not supply the dose that authorities say killed the actor.<\/p>\n<p>The doctor admitted taking advantage of Perry, knowing he was a struggling addict.<\/p>\n<p>Plasencia texted another doctor that Perry was a \u201cmoron\u201d who could be exploited for money, according to court filings.<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763978589_968_whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A doctor who pleaded guilty to selling ketamine to Matthew Perry in the weeks before the Friends star\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-297710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}